Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:06:29 +0200 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to delete a package Message-ID: <20070917220629.GB69005@hyperion.scode.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F35E3310DEC5DF51EF736F783BF0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY105-F35E3310DEC5DF51EF736F783BF0@phx.gbl>
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--l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > =3D=3D=3D> Installing for libgda3-1.9.102_3 > =3D=3D=3D> libgda3-1.9.102_3 conflicts with installed package(s): > libgda2-1.2.4_1,1 > They install files into the same place. > Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). As people have noted you can use -f to force deletion. The problem you are experiencing would typically happen either because you are trying to install some top-level packages that are truly in conflict, in the sense that they depend on conflicting versions of libgda. Alternatively, you have older versions of various packages installed that depend on the older version of libgda3, and are now trying to install the gnome stuff from a newer ports tree. In this case you may want to perform a full upgrade (using portupgrade/portmanagaer/portmaster/etc). forcibly deleting the package will work, but the other packages depending on them will very likely break. > (As an aside, is it okay to run these installations from a terminal window > from inside the Gnome GUI environment, or should I be outside of Gnome > altogether when I do program installations/upgrades?) It doesn't matter, except in so far as any actions would kill your running terminal. I would suspect that the already running terminal would survive (certainly this is the case with most), though I don't know if the gnome terminal is doing stuff even after initial start-up that might cause it to die. (To be strict of course it's always safest to not run stuff you are actively upgrading, while upgrading. In practice though it "tends to work".) --=20 / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG7vpkDNor2+l1i30RAoEOAKCDYW4NI2qcRpfThu/Hdr+5B/Iy9gCg4ihd 4H8JkmYUmrgF2m37QbpUJfU= =4E5q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI--
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